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Three Key Things Successful Bloggers Do to Build Their Blogs Into Businesses

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It can help you sell to your audience, build traffic, and build a sense of community. As John says in his post, you shouldn’t have just the one opportunity for people to opt in to your email list on your blog (or even a page of your blog). a call to action at the bottom of your blog posts.

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How to Warm Up Your Readers and Make Them Raving Fans

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The post How to Warm Up Your Readers and Make Them Raving Fans appeared first on ProBlogger. This post is based on episode 112 of the ProBlogger podcast. Most bloggers dream of having fans raving about them and their blog. Why audiences start out cold. Getting people to your blog or podcast is one thing.

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Should Your Blog Have a Static Homepage (Whatever That Means)?

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In the podcast episode on 3 Key Things Bloggers Do to Grow Their Blogs into Businesses , I talked about how blog homepages have evolved over the years – from the long list of full posts that was standard when I started in 2002, to the portal-like static homepages that are becoming increasingly common today. Absolutely.

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How to Leverage the 80/20 Rule for Blogging Success

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In 2002, then-CEO of Microsoft Steve Ballmer announced that the 80/20 rule was not only applicable to the company’s product features – it applied to bugs, as well. Bear in mind that good content is the key for a blog to be successful in long run (to build return visitors and loyal readership). Focus on the Right Audience.

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243: Tools and Techniques to Blog Effectively on the Road

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Particularly, check out our two courses once you’re there, look for the courses tab up in the navigation and there you will find out two courses, our How to Start a Blog course which is completely free. If you wanna learn more about blogging from the road, that’s what I do wanna focus in on now. That’s what I did back in 2002, 2003.

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The Pros and Cons of Having Multiple Blogs

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So this week I want to talk about both the benefits and the costs of having multiple blogs so you can decide whether it’s worth doing. But first, I need to talk about how these two blogs came to be, and about the other blogs that were discarded along the way to get to this point. My first blog.

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192: 3 Key Things Bloggers Do to Grow Their Blogs into Businesses

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In today’s lesson, I want to talk about some of the things that successful bloggers are doing to increase the conversions on their website and to guarantee their success not only as bloggers to build an audience but also to help them to build a business and to make money from their blogs. There’s a rule distinction there.

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